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2 Wholeness How we perceive a situation determines how we respond (McEwen). Perception is the coming together of knower and known. By changing selfknowledge we change our perception and so our response in any situation.

4 Intergroup Competition: seen in soccer and baseball Failure of a person on your team; Anterior insula activated helping behavior and greater empathy Failure of a person on the other team; Nucleus accumbens part of pleasure circuit. Hein et al, in press, Neuron

5 Racial Profiling Policemen will most often see a youth of color pull a gun from their coat; and a white youth pull an ipod from their coat.

6 Frontal areas are offline when you are tired and when you are under stress 1

13 Focused Attention Open Monitoring Meditations in both FA and OM categories: Are constructed states created through deployment of specific attentional strategies Content (Core Nuclei) Content (Core Nuclei) Automatic Self- Transcending Meditations in AST: Are unconstructed and do not involve intentional effort; based on reflexive awareness. Travis and Shear, 2010, Consciousness and Cognition, 19:

14 Conscious Mind O OO The TM Technique Takes the mind from the active level to the source of thought, experienced as restful alertness O OO O Source of Thought

15 Front Middle Back Travis et al, 2009

16 Let s See EEG Patterns during TM in Real Time Notice how quickly brain patterns change during TM practice. Notice how the coherence is uniformly higher during TM practice.

27 American Heart Association, 2013 the Transcendental Meditation technique is the only meditation practice that has been shown to lower blood pressure all other meditation techniques (including MBSR) received a 'Class III, no benefit, Level of Evidence C' recommendation and are not recommended in clinical practice to lower blood pressure at this time.

28 Conclusion TM meditation practice leads to a change of state to pure consciousness that gives one a new basis for processing experience. The practical benefit is that you are more in control of your life able to thrive in a challenging world.

Transcendental Meditation: Health Research Overview by Dr Roger Chalmers originally published January 2013 Transcendental Meditation (TM), as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, is a simple, effortless technique

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